Metadata Learns Social Cues: Sugarcoating the Tagging Pill by , for

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The signs are unmistakable. Tagging is how we keep our priorities straight and even how we define the contours of our online profiles. Labeling the buckets is finally out of the shadows. These a... read more

The Battle Ahead: Information Governance and the Need for Social ECM by , for

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“Gartner predicts by 2016, 20% of CIOs in regulated industries will lose their jobs for failing to implement the discipline of information governance successfully.” Houston, we... read more

Why Folders are the new "F" word by , for

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Why are folders the new F word?  It’s not because I promote disorganization.  Quite the opposite.  Folders only give you the perception of organization.  Real organizat... read more

Setting the Terms in SharePoint 2010 by , for

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Tagging is based on two units -- the link, which points to any page within the range of your security settings, and the tag, which names or labels the link. Taxonomies on the other hand answer t... read more

Many Happy Returns on 2011 SharePoint Investments by , for

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The lame duck Congress had just tackled an entire term's worth of legislation and I heard one pundit say "it's time to get out of the prediction business." It is amazing what a... read more

SharePoint 2010 Marries Formal and Informal Taxonomies by , for

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SharePoint 2010 had two new capabilities that can potentially increase the value of the documents being stored in the Document Libraries.  Several months ago I wrote a Blog post titled:... read more

Classification by , for

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Content classification is a system of categorizing content with a set of common topics or terms. The classification process starts by taking large groupings of content and logically subdividing the... read more

Organizing Chaos -- Tag It! by , for

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One of the most powerful means of filtering, sorting and searching information that has emerged as part of social computing is the use of “tags” to classify content of all types. Ass... read more

Things that I am thinking about… by , for

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Last week, I was fortunate enough to attend the AIIM Conference in Philadelphia to deliver a keynote on Thursday morning with my friend Ryan Duguid from Microsoft. At the end of our talk, we lef... read more